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“Much of South Africa’s economic future will depend on what happens in the next few years.” (Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

SA needs economic transition 2.0

Thirty years since democracy, the country needs a radical shift to steer it out of stagnation

  • Eyaaz
5 min read
Unemployed men inJohannesburg wait on a street corner for work for part-time work. Photo: Naashon Zalk/Bloomberg/Getty Images

The Fiscal Cliff | Shallow state purse deepens jobs crisis

In this instalment of The Fiscal Cliff – a Mail & Guardian series on how South Africa’s budget has been shaped – Sarah Smit considers the intimate link between the country’s ultra-high unemployment rate and austerity

  • Eyaaz
8 min read